82-80

[librarian62]

Scans from a 1972 spec. sheet.

[Holger]

[FOWLER MAN]

Hi,
Never seen an 82-80, I don't know if we had any this side of the pond, I expect someone on here will know.
Firm I used to work for had some 82-30s and 82-40s, they were pretty good.
Although I was a fitter I did get on them occasionaly, 82-40 was the first dozer I drove with a hydraulic tilt blade, quite fast on box too.

Fred

[librarian62]

I've only seen one 82-80, and an older Euclid TC-12 on the "tube". Have seen an 82-30 and a C-6 a long time ago in person. I thought they were cool. Nice shade of green they had.

[donbuz]

Hi,
Never seen an 82-80, I don't know if we had any this side of the pond, I expect someone on here will know.
Firm I used to work for had some 82-30s and 82-40s, they were pretty good.
Although I was a fitter I did get on them occasionaly, 82-40 was the first dozer I drove with a hydraulic tilt blade, quite fast on box too.

Fred

we had a new 82-80 at dowsett 1969 the driver was john from thurnscoe sounded great at full bore it was on the skelmersdale by pass at orrell

[Basilbrush]

I didn't know there was an 82-80 either, I'd like to have seen one. A company I worked for had an 82-30 rope blade & an 82-40 Hydraulic blade. I never worked on a job with the 82-40 but photos showing the 82-30 working are posted on here somewhere. The man driving it was Gordon Frost & he could make the thing talk.

BB

[clockworklozenge1]

Does anyone have pics or specs /dimensions for the tc 12/8280 cabins which were available? - would like to recreate a model based round the corgi toy with the modern forward sloping cab design,sadly most pics of tc12s. or 8280s seem to be cabless- an operators dream im sure....

[brian]

There was at least one 82-50 over here, I operated it briefly. The company was called Roundhay Construction and the same guy had some (I believe) TS24 scrapers. The 82-50 looked like the 82-40 but had a V12 Detroit rather than a V8 and was a screamer. I seem to remember someone saying they were all ex-NCB machines.

[stevec13]

Worked for Roundhays down on the Burbage bypass A346 i think. Was on one of the 24s. There from the start i remember waiting for the machines to arrive, old machines good guy to work for shillings were vgood

[brian]

He was on the Thrapston bi-pass, re-instating a borrow pit for Phelans. I worked for Phelans but had a bit of time on the 82-50.